The MachineLearning EngineerIssue #26

This week we will be speaking at the AI O’Reilly Beijing on Machine Learning Explainability (XAI), and next week we’ll be speaking on Machine Learning Orchestration at Kubecon Shanghai, Open Source Summit, OSCon and Slush China 🚀 Come say hello!

This week in Issue #26:

• PyTorch Hub for Reproducible ML
• A free course on privacy preserving ML
• MLFlow for pipeline management
• E2E NLP Pipelines with Kubeflow & Seldon
• The brains behind SpaCy
• AI conferences
• ML jobs
• + more 🚀

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PyTorch Hub + Reproducible ML

Reproducibility is an essential requirement for many fields of research including those based on machine learning techniques. PyTorch has released PyTorch Hub, where the community can now share models built with PyTorch. This new great resource also has built-in support for Colab, integration with Papers With Code and currently contains a broad set of models that include Classification and Segmentation, Generative, Transformers, and beyond 🚀.

Privacy-preserving AI free course

What a time to be alive for life-long learners - a brand new Free online course has been made available by Facebook AI on hands down some of the most exciting topics in this space: Federated Learning, Differential Privacy and Encrypted computation. This course teaches you how to leverage open source tools to explore these topics on an introductory level. Really awesome to see this type of content be made available freely.

MLFlow for pipeline management

MLflow from Databricks is an open source framework that addresses some of the biggest challenges in machine learning, including configuring environments, tracking experiments, and deploying trained models for inference. This post provides a high level overview on this framework as well as useful links to get started trying it out.

E2E NLP Pipelines with Kubeflow

End to end pipelines are always a challenge in the data science space. Kubeflow is an open source framework that hells you run reproducible ML workloads in Kubernetes. This example showcases and end-to-end NLP pipeline leveraging re-usable components that utilize key frameworks such as the SpaCy NLP library to perform automation of text analysis, as well as serving the models using Seldon.

The Brains behind SpaCy

The DataHack team has put together a great podcast where they bring the co-founders of Explosion.ai, and authors of SpaCy to talk about the story behind this popular framework. During this 40 minute episode, they dive into the idea behind developing spaCy, spaCy’s evolution from the first alpha release, use cases of spaCy including a couple of surprising applicationsInes, and Matt’s advice to NLP enthusiasts.

MLOps = Featured OS Libraries

The theme for this week’s featured ML libraries is ML Model and Data Versioning frameworks, which fall on our Responsible ML Principle #4. The four featured libraries this week are:

• Data Version Control (DVC) - A git-like framework that allows for version management of models
• Pachyderm - Open source distributed processing framework build on Kubernetes focused mainly on dynamic building of production machine learning pipelines
• ModelDB - Framework to track all the steps in your ML code to keep track of what version of your model obtained which accuracy, and then visualise it and query it via the UI
• PredictionIO - An open source Machine Learning Server built on top of a state-of-the-art open source stack for developers and data scientists to create predictive engines for any machine learning task

If you know of any libraries that are not in the “Awesome MLOps” list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!

MLConf = Conferences & Events

We feature conferences that have core ML tracks (primarily in Europe for now) to help our community stay up to date with great events coming up.

Technical & Scientific Conferences

• AI Conference Beijing [18/06/2019] - O’Reilly’s signature applied AI conference in Asia in Beijing, China.

• RAAIS 2019 [28/06/2019] - The Research and Applied AI Summit in London, UK

• EURNLP 2019 [11/10/2019] - European NLP Research summit in London, UK.

• Data Natives [21/11/2019] - Data conference in Berlin, Germany.

• ODSC Europe [19/11/2019] - The Open Data Science Conference in London, UK.

• Spacy IRL [05/07/2019] - SpaCy NLP’s First F2F Conference in Berlin, Germany.

• EurNLP [11/10/2019] - Europe’s NLP research conference (pronounced “Your NLP”) in London, UK

• Khipu AI [11/11/2019] - Latin American Meeting in Artifical Intelligence in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Business Conferences

• Predictive Analytics World [18/11/2019] - Conference for Business AI in Berlin, Germany.

• Big Data LDN 2019 [13/11/2019] - Conference for strategy and tech on big data in London, UK.

MLJobs = Jobs & Careers

We showcase Machine Learning Engineering jobs (primarily in London for now) to help our community stay up to date with great opportunities that come up. It seems that the demand for data scientists continues to rise!

Leadership Opportunities

• Algorithmia is hiring for a VP of Engineering in Seatle, USA
• Fractal Labs is hiring for a VP of Engineering in London

Mid-level Opportunities

• Proportunity is hiring for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in London

• Atlas ML is hiring for a Lead NLP Engineer in London

• StreetBees is hiring for a Senior Data Scientist in London

• Tractable is hiring for a Senior Deep Learning Engineer

• FactMata is hiring for a Lead Machine Learning Engineer in London

Junior Opportunities

• Migacore is hiring for a Machine Learning Engineer in London
• Babylon Health is hiring for a Machine Learning Engineer in London